A decentralized storage service that rents capacity from users around the globe is among a small cadre of vendors claiming their capacity is cheaper and more resilient than big players such as Amazon S3. A cloud storage service first announced in 2015 that ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reduced the pricing of Amazon S3 Express One Zone — its cloud object storage targeted at performance-critical and latency-sensitive applications. Introduced at re:Invent 2023, Amazon S3 Express Zone was brought to life to ...

The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS and Amazon VPC. "If you have existing Reserved Instances ...

Amazon is pulling the plug on Amazon Drive, a cloud storage service that the company first launched in 2011, when it was known as Amazon Cloud Drive. Amazon Photos, which is designed specifically as a photo and video backup and sharing service, will ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) pioneered mass market, large-scale and cost-effective cloud storage when it entered the market back in 2006. The hyperscaler’s Simple Storage Service (S3) set out to make storing data in the cloud as simple as possible, at least ...

The e-commerce giant said Amazon Web Services is growing at its fastest rate since 2022, driven by AI. Shares surged in after-hours trading.